Question on threading/SMP

[Russ Allbery]

Kristofer Pettijohn <kristofer at cybernetik.net> writes:

> When I was playing with INN in a test environment, running top and ps
> showed one innfeed and one innd process, with a lot of idle time, and
> not very much throughput (compared to Diablo).

You'll get better results by running multiple innfeed processes for
different sizes of articles.

> Does INN work in an SMP environment?

Yes, as you could see from your experiment, it ran.  It didn't crash or
refuse to start.  :)

INN is not multithreaded.

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